I’ve been working on this for two days. Proton experimental….protonqt…wine being updated…. Fucking everything and I cannot get the .exe to run consistently. Sometimes I can get it going, typically from desktop but game mode is almost never. I’ve looked on every YouTube, Reddit thread but nothing. What am I missing to get the damn thing to run? Now I’m moving the extracted folder onto the deck from the SD card cause I have no idea what else it could be. And I feel like that just doesn’t make sense since the card is the right speed

The version I'm on is very old like 1.05 and I want to download the newest repack which has everything and I'm wondering how to transfer my data, specifically my CAW, thankyou

I downloaded GTA V off of steamrip and deleted 2 games to do it but now can't get past the rockstar game launcher popup. I've looked in the threads and looked for the file playgta.bat.exe or anything similar it won't let me add it to steam or open file. And other files like playgta.exe or gta.exe keep asking to use rockstar launcher. How should I proceed?

Hey has anybody managed to get the DD2 dev build to run on the deck? if so, how? for me its not launching whatsoever

Been digging for an hour on how to run it with no luck, so sorry if it’s been answered here before

thanks in advance

hii, im not good in english.

someono know how do pirate fields of mistria?? i can´t do it, please help

I finally figured out how to dowload hearts of iron but the whole map is black, is this something i can fix?

got my 1tb oled yesterday and still haven't really played anything, i'm super overwhelmed by it all.

i've done research and tried a bunch of things. right now what i'm trying to do is install a fitgirl repack of the rdr pc port. i downloaded it in desktop mode, put the .exe on steam, now am force-running it with protondb experimental. (if it sounds like i know what i'm doing, i really don't.) before the unpacking started, it told me that there isn't enough space on the z drive (bullshit, this is a 1tb model and i've used like none of it yet) so i told it to go ahead anyway. am i doing the right thing? i could really use some guidance.

I am looking for a way to install Wemod and use it in steam deck, would you please help me find a way or a substitute of Wemod for steam deck

I downloaded all the zip files for hearts of iron and tried extracting it on my sd card but dolphin wont let me

Just curious. I tried, it loaded and I could pick the game mode but creating and loading into the new game didn’t work. It like got stuck loading (load icon still animated) but I couldn’t use my 3 dot menu item or steam button.

One time it even force reset my deck.

Any thoughts?

Hi, I'm having trouble finding a Gog game that I just downloaded and forgot to change the installation path

So I looked on the internet to find it and I came across here, in "compatdata"

I have Protontricks which allows me to see what the numbers correspond to and I can't find my gog game, Protontricks only shows me 13 folders while I have more than 20 in my Compatdata folder??😅

Do you have any idea where my Gog game is located and what the other unrecognized folders by protontricks could be used for?

The game in particular is Sparking Zero.

Wondering if there's a decky plugin or similar that will upload my save similar to Steams cloud sync but only to my PC?

I abandoned fit girl for dodi since it was stuck in the 90s for sooo long. Happening with dodi too. Apparently “just wait” is the motto? It’s for Elden ring. Just want to know if anyone else waited for like….days 😂

If I format my SD card in deck settings will I lose any data or saves I have on games I’ve downloaded to the SD?

I wanted to set my deck to install legit games to the SD card by default but forgot to format it when I first used it

Just want to check before I do anything

Hi everyone!

I have installed Baldur's Gate 3 with offline gog installer, I installed it using steam and adding the installer as the non-steam game and then running the installer via steam and forcing it to use proton experimental (If I remember correctly) . Now whenever I am trying to update it to the newest patch, I get the message:

game installation not found, please reinstall

Now I am aware that this is because the patch needs to be installed with the same pfx as the original installation but the problem is it seems like I can't get it to run in the same pfx as the og installation. I've tried adding the patch as the target in steam (instead of the game launcher in the steam non-steam games), which didn't work. I added the patch separately and then added the command:

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2270857948/" %command%

I found the pfx using the protontricks and checking for the number beside my game's name. Now I did verify that the pfx number is for BG3 (I checked the folders and then found my save files there, which to me shows that the pfx number is correct (and also I later added the game .exe in Lutris to try and install the patch from there which I'll later mention in details, and used the same pfx as the wine pfx folder, and was able to run the game without any problems)) but wasn't able to install the patch and got the same message. I did try putting the patch itself in the pfx main folder and then adding it from there and tried to run which didn't help. I tried to find exactly where in my pfx folder the game is located but I only were able to find my save files location (which also had a pfx folder in it, not sure if it should be that way or not) and then used it in my launch options.

Then I came this post. But since I didn't have the installer file, I had to choose the option add manually installed game in Lutris, and as I mentioned earlier, I did use the pfx folder found via protontricks, and the game ran without a hitch, but it took a considerable amount of time to open (I think it took 5-10 minutes, which at first I thought wasn't running and the whole steam deck was unresponsive during that time, I almost restarted but then decided to wait a bit longer and then the game opened). After adding the game to Lutris I used the option Run EXE inside Wine Prefix but it didn't work neither and I still got the message "game installation not found, please reinstall".

So I tried everything I could find but wasn't successful in getting it to work, and if I can't get it to work the problem is I realistically have two options, either play the outdated version, or download the whole game, since I have deleted the installer and its files, So I really appreciate it if you can help me.

Thanks.

I tried posting this on the other steam deck reddit but it wouldnt let me for some reason 🤷‍♂️. Heres a couple comments i made on how to get LAN co op working on the steam deck

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/18jtjra/play_local_coop_without_wifi/kdp2m53/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1h0w3p7/play_on_lan_with_2_steam_decks_outside_home/lz7oisp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

Let me know if yall have any questions!

Hello everyone !

How's your experience with pirated games on a steamdeck ?

Knowing that it's a linux computer behind, it might be less convinient than on a PC. Or perf is not awesome or else...

But i saw a lot of people using the steamdeck for emulations so maybe there's something behind that for newer games also.

Thanks in advance for your response 😀

I downloaded the update package from fitgirl which is from cs rin ru source

But I don't know how to install it after that. There is no readme file. I searched the discussion on the site and did not find any section on how to install it.

So I have been playing balatro for a bit and loving the game. I really wish I could contribute to the devs but I just can't yet. For some reason I can't get the game to run outside of desktop mode. It will run but I don't see anything just hear the intro music in game mode. In desktop mode the game runs great but I have tried various proton versions and still can't get the game to run properly. I think it has something to do with the delayed launch fucking with steam because in desktop mode the game launches slower than most.

Heya, fellow pirates!

Now it is autumn sale on steam. I am just wondering which game is worth the price that cannot be cracked.

I am hooked with hades 2, so i am eyeing Diablo IV now.

You guys have any recommended game that cannot be cracked and on sale? :)

This is more of a general steamdeck help question but this community seems to be the most responsive sub that I've seen!

I have a 2 TB external SSD that I use to back up my games and save data etc. I use it on my windows gaming laptop and steam deck. Tonight (after working fine this morning) the steam deck is refusing to mount the SSD. I can still use it fine on my Windows laptop. SteamDeck will just say "could not mount this device". I am doing all this in Desktop mode.

Any ideas for how to reset this? I already booted the BIOS and confirmed serial devices are set to xHCI and not DRD.

In Dolphin, if I try to click the external SSD I get an error message that is a bit more useful.

"An error occurred while accessing 'MY DEVICE', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /run/media/deck/'MY DEVICE': wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error". I have been using this device (swapping between windows and steam deck) constantly for the last ~5 months and am confused how this could suddenly stop working (but still working fine on Windows).

Thanks in advance for any ideas to try!

Please help. I downloaded Spiderman remastered on gofile via steamrip. I extracted it and ran the Spiderman.exe. and it doesn't let me play it just says no license. I've posted before and was hoping someone could walk me through it. Any help is much appreciated

I am looking help in setting up yuzu or whatever emulation is best for Mario Kart for STEAMDECK any advice please? roms good to go.

Never had played the game I was like “huh…I guess that matches?” First timer over here 😂

I've downloaded spiderman from steam rip but whatever i do the game doesn't work It says "error happened during the booting of the game: configuration of the game not available" can anybody help?

Sorry im new user sry for my bad english

Ok so I've kinda got a lot to say and wasn't sure where to say it. I wanted to post this as a reply in the post I originally found that was a tutorial on how to install pirated PC games onto Steam Deck, but that was months ago and I can no longer find that exact post. Anyway, this all started then. I found that post, learned how easy it was to put pirated games onto the Deck, and fell in love.

Naturally I downloaded every game I even remotely wanted to play (and any time I mention a download, I'm referring to fitgirl, using qBittorent, as I discovered in that post the uTorrent is no longer safe apparently). I only just recently got a PC, after not having had one for many years, but back in the late '90s-mid 2000's I was a big PC gamer, and during that time I pirated countless PC games towards the mid 2000's. I never once had any issues.

A day or two after one of my downloading sprees, our internet goes out sometime during the night. I figured it was just an outage like any other, except it didn't come back on around when it normally would. I eventually got tired and fell asleep. Later the next evening my dad asks me if I downloaded any games, and that apparently I screwed up the internet by doing so. Our ISP (Spectrum) called and he talked with them and they eventually turned the internet back on for us sometime that day. Now, he's...getting old, and is kind of slipping a bit, and also has some minor issues with dementia and he tends to get things a little confused and what have you, so by the time he gave me the message it was not at all what the Spectrum person had told him, but I pretty much knew what it was about. So I figured ok, don't download anything for a while, and next time just download one game here, one game there, sneak past em that way.

So, long story short, this happened I think 2 more times, and on the 2nd time they sent a notice in the mail that if we didn't contact them by a certain date, our internet service would be canceled for good. So we called that night, and again I wasn't around for the call but had explained that yeah I downloaded pirated games, just tell them I won't do it anymore and it'll be fine. And that's exactly what they explained to my dad, and the fact that I was to delete everything I had downloaded (yeah, right).

So it's been a while since then and I haven't downloaded anything except ROMS, which aren't illegal anyway. But this whole thing keeps bugging me. And in the original post I found it specifically mentioned to use a VPN to avoid this issue, which was the first time I had ever even heard that. The topic creator actually listed a VPN they recommend, and also said to avoid using free VPNs that claim to do the job. My new PC came with a trail of Norton 360 for Gamers, but it has since expired. Not that it did any good anyway, because even using its VPN, as soon as I started qBittorent, the VPN shut off, and said it couldn't run when a torrent software was running. Which actually made me laugh, as that was literally the one thing I needed it for.

So I guess I've got 2 main questions. 1) Why would your ISP care what you're downloading? Also, I recall on the notice they sent us, it specifically mentioned that they had "received several complaints" regarding our internet activity, or something to that extent. THEY received complaints? Who did the complaining to them??

And 2) Does anyone have a solid VPN they recommend to avoid this issues? One maybe they use specifically to get around this? And are there really no free VPNs that will work? (I'm kind of on a tight budget atm) Oh and lastly, since I no next to nothing about VPNs, let's say I get a VPN on my PC, how do I get it to cover, for instance, my Steam Deck, if I wanted to pirate games directly on the Deck in Desktop Mode?

I know this is a lot and maybe not the right place for it but I dunno where else to go to get answers so thanks for understanding and especially thanks for any advice you can give!

The 1st time open play 1st mission was fine but after a 15 minute later or 30 minute / next mission the issue is pop out noise sound not synch game and The Cutscene is laggy in loading

Any idea fix this ?